Rating of
2/4
a let down
spanglish - wrote on 08/17/10
This movie was okay...i say this because I had high expectations to begin with--Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman seem like a sure bet. Both of their characters fell short. Gene Hackman's character just quits by the end of the film and is no longer the antagonist that had made the scene (with the wife) so riveting. Still, for most of the movie the plot loses steam. A lot happens in the first twenty minutes of the film to make the viewer think "this is going to be intense!" ; however, Cruise's character comes up with a crazy scheme with Holly Hunter to fool both the FBI and the Firm...too bad the viewer isn't included. The viewer can only guess at what he is planning to do (reveal a fraud), which works for some movies but not for this, and it becomes easy to lose interest while secret papers are being copied, stolen, switched, etc.
